Brick_Wood_Stone_Land_Water_Measurement - University of Virginia
Brick_Wood_Stone_Land_Water_Measurement - University of Virginia
Brick_Wood_Stone_Land_Water_Measurement - University of Virginia
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<strong>Brick</strong>_<strong>Wood</strong>_<strong>Stone</strong>_<strong>Land</strong>_<strong>Water</strong>_<strong>Measurement</strong><br />
By the middle <strong>of</strong> July 1817 in a small brick kiln near a large spring on the west side <strong>of</strong> the square (or lawn as it<br />
came to be known) bricks were being made for the new pavilion.<br />
See TJ to Benjamin H. Latrobe, 16 July 1817, DLC:TJ, and TJ to John Hartwell Cocke, 19 July 1817, ViU:JHC; see also Van Horne, Correspndence and Miscellaneous Papers <strong>of</strong> Benjamin Henry<br />
Latrobe, 3:907-10.<br />
brick yard<br />
Special Collections Library, UVA, MSS4527<br />
large spring<br />
first pavilion<br />
brick yard<br />
The process <strong>of</strong> brickmaking began in full force in the middle <strong>of</strong> June 1818 as the seasonal weather permitted in<br />
order to commence laying the bricks for the first pavilion and those that followed.<br />
Larkin notes that during this period in American history, “few used brick and stone except for German settlers and their descendants” (The Reshaping <strong>of</strong> Everyday Life, 107).